ANNUAL REPORT 2016

Pulse of ICRISAT

Celebrating the International Year of Pulses

Messages

From the Director General

From the Board Chair

Research Highlights

ICRISAT’s belief statement: “All people have a right to nutritious food and a better livelihood” translates on the ground through it mission areas. This annual report brings to you the advances made in overcoming hunger and poverty, reducing malnutrition, preventing environmental degradation, empowering women, coping with climate change and adopting digital tools in agriculture.

We take you through the 2016 research highlights to give you a glimpse of the work accomplished, right from harnessing the wealth of our genetic resources to working towards demand-driven innovation in all our programs in Africa and Asia. This huge body of work was accomplished through the support of our funders, smallholder farmers and the collaboration of national governments, international bodies, the National Agricultural Research System, advanced research institutes and universities, and private sector partners.

Wendy Umberger, Australia

Member

David J Bergvinson, Canada

Director General

Nigel Wells Kerby, Britain

Member

Paco Sereme, Burkina Faso

Member

Paul C Anderson, USA

Member

Pradeep Chandra, India

Member(from Dec 2016)

Rajiv Sharma, India

Member(till Nov 2016)

Shobhana Pattanayak, India

Member(from Feb 2016)

Siraj Hussain, India

Member(till Feb 2016)

About Us

We believe all people have a right to
nutritious food and a better livelihood.

ICRISAT works in agricultural research for development across
the drylands of Africa
and Asia, making
farming profi table for
smallholder farmers while
reducing malnutrition and environmental
degradation.
We work across the
entire value chain
from developing new
varieties to agri-business
and linking farmers to
markets.

Vision
A prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics

Mission
To reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics

Approach
Inclusive Market-Oriented Development (IMOD)

Modernized ICRISAT logo

Our journey of change

Realigned research programs structure

In 2016 the ICRISAT Research Programs structure was realigned to facilitate greater agility and response to national needs and
priorities (see flowchart below).